Talmud

Like a great many others have over these past few days, I have read the incredibly powerful letter written by ...

At the far end of the town of Tiflus, in a small house built upon the foundations of Torah, piety, ...

In Pirkei Avot 2:10 we are taught that Rabbi Eliezer said, יהי כבוד חברך חביב עליך כשלך “Let your neighbor’s dignity be precious ...

Last night, as the Republican debate began, a Facebook friend wrote that she was having her own internal debate about ...

I am learning the laws of niddah, laws that relate to menstruation and sexuality, with a group of women. It has ...

I’ll be honest. I am both fascinated and horrified by many of the daily updates in these still early stages ...

As the calendar flips to December, nightfall comes ever earlier, and many of us don our winter coats for the ...

I recently began studying a new book with my chevruta (study partner), Musar HaTorah v’aYahadut, written by Rabbi Aharon Shmuel ...

Passover is the eight-day Jewish holiday in which we ask questions at the seder table. For one quirky Jewish guy ...

Over the summer, Larry, the organizer of the minyan that I attend for Rosh Hashanah, sent out an email asking ...

One of the great disappointments of this summer has been finding out, with the publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set ...

My social media has been abuzz this past week with the commentary on a recent article published by Rabbi Mordechai ...